The above WKNR chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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In recognition also of the Beatles ‘Let It Be’ motion picture advertisement published on the back-side of this WKNR Music Guide, 54 years ago, this week . . . .
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
NEW! A special THANK YOU to Mark Yurko, of Langhorne, PA., for his recent WKNR aircheck contribution for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks airchecks repository.
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A NOTE ABOUT STEVE CLARKE
Steve Clarke, who filled-in for Jim Jeffries (two weeks) in July 1966, was also a WKFR radio personality at Keener 14 in Battle Creek (also a Knorr station at the time). Since WKNR had another “Clark,” as in Ted Clark, the name Steve Clarke was dropped by WKNR management for Steve Robbins when hired to replace Jim Jeffries (who left WKNR for WQXI in Atlanta) before the end of 1967.
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Newly restored! This audio recording was digitally enhanced by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
Audio digitally remastered. Audio courtesy of Bob Green Productions
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This article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2024. Newspapers.com
Originally printed in black and white, the featured Detroit Free Press ad was digitally re-imaged, colorized, and was entirely restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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A special THANK YOU to WKNR legend Bob Green (Bob Green Productions) of Austin, Texas, for having shared with us, years ago, this May 1965 WKNR promo for our Motor City Radio Flashbacks archives.
Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for providing the above Detroit Free Press WKNR 1310 ad (May 20, 1965) for this site, as featured today.
A special thank you to senior MCRFB consultant Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for contributing the Newspapers.com archives (Detroit radio related) articles, ads, and images we have provide for this site since 2016.
Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂
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Originally printed in black and white, the featured Detroit Free Press ad was digitally re-imaged, colorized, and was entirely restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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MCRFB Note: Special THANKS to our friend, John Bartony (a.k.a. Jukebox John) St. Clair Shores, Michigan, for providing the above Detroit Free Press WKNR 1310 ad (May 17, 1965) for this site, as featured today.
A special thank you to senior MCRFB consultant Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for contributing the Newspapers.com archives (Detroit radio related) articles, ads, and images we have provide for this site since 2016.
Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂
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A sincere, thank you, Mrs. Patti Griggs. This featured presentation would have not been possible without your generosity, dedication, and your continuous support.
Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
The above WKNR chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
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Above WKNR music chart courtesy of Mrs. Patti Griggs and the George L. Griggs estate.
These article/advertisement courtesy freep.com newspaper archive. Copyright 2024. Newspapers.com
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Hey do you remember the Think Summer campaign Keener launched in Detroit in the winter of 1965?
Well, let’s see . . . . I can still see those Think Summer newspaper ads. And there were those Think Summer button giveaways. There was also a Think Summer contest as well. Recall seeing a few of those Think Summer billboards WKNR posted around town. And then there was that one Think Summer song, yeah . . . that was playing on the radio, on Keener 13!
According to the WKNR music guides posted on Keener13.com, Think Summer by Susan Wayne debuted during the week of February 18, 1965. But by the time Think Summer peaked at the No. 25 spot on WKNR, March 3, 1965, thereafter, that would be it . . . just three weeks on the Keener 13 playlists in short order.
But that was enough for WKNR to generate an imaginary kind of ‘mirage,’ if you will, a brief winter’s thaw we must have felt, at least momentarily, during the station’s contest they off-loaded with that one, huge “summertime” give-a-way at the time. If all else, the Think Summer event became the ultimate radio event during that cold winter here in Detroit, 59-years ago.
Straight from the Keener vaults, and courtesy of WKNR legend, Bob Green. We are showcasing two of those WKNR Think Summer promos (audio under each ad). All from that memorable winter’s brief “summer-time fun” contestants cashed in on while listening to Keener 13 during those two winter months in early-1965.
And at date, we are just nine days away from spring, so . . . .
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A MCRFB Note: This attached post was previously published on this site on January 29, 2012.
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Detroit Free Press Thursday, January 28, 1965
A special THANK YOU to WKNR’s Bob Green, of Austin, TX., for having contributing the featured WKNR promos presented today, on this page.
Thanks again, Bob Green, for sharing with us these wonderful, Keener 13 memories!
A special thank you to senior MCRFB consultant Greg Innis, of Livonia, MI., for contributing the Newspapers.com archives (Detroit radio related) articles, ads, and images we have provide for this site since 2016.
Thank you, Greg Innis, for making these historic Detroit radio features possible. 🙂
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The above WKNR chart was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
In recognition also of the Beatles ‘Let It Be’ motion picture advertisement published on the back-side of this WKNR Music Guide, 54 years ago, this week . . . . 
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